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Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Humor | Clicks: 445 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 159 | Rank: 0 | Fav

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 152 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 167 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 160 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 179 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 164 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 154 | Rank: 0 | Fav

''We are always doing,'' says he, ''something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.''

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 194 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 165 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 190 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 159 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 167 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 159 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 185 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 161 | Rank: 0 | Fav

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 182 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 143 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 140 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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